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Chimera Industries Cerberus: The 18L, mATX, USA-made enclosure
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I would guess it's so that the gaps around the case remain uniform. Just a guess though.
Thanks for the info! I was worried about my part selection for a moment there. Are custom colors available to pre-order or just the standard colors?
Oh heck yes. Excited to see this case finally produced and sold!
Sadly, I probably won't buy one because I ended up receiving a DanCase A4 in the spring and have finished a mITX build...
Sadly, I probably won't buy one because I ended up receiving a DanCase A4 in the spring and have finished a mITX build...
Got a better price from ball stud / clip manufacturer, came out to about same cost to do 4 at old price as 6 at new. Plus should alleviate any panel gap concerns as @3lfk1ng guessed correctly.
For 17th goal we're sticking to the 5 colors + bare metal, hitting Black Friday shoppers is a must.
(I personally want to do sets of grained aluminum, stainless steel, gloss white, and a rustic steampunk set before Christmas. Only issue with these is the studs show on outside, but have an idea for a work around.)
Alright, that's sounds like a good plan. I'll wait for the new photos to drop and make an informed decision then. I myself may go with the bare metal depending how it looks as I'm wanting a clean industrial vibe with color accents. Are we getting photos of that one as well?
Forget any 140mm fan/radiator at bottom as feet are covering screw location...you can put 1x140mm or 2x120mm at bottom..
Maybe just use screws on one side of the fan(s) and zip tip or whatever the other end?
I'm pretty sold on red + slate top.
Are you getting two panel sets or painting the black top yourself? Pretty sure you can't spec color per panel (Marc's was a mistake)
Pipes off the waterblock going straight up plus not very flexible so likely problems with clearance if PSU rear mounted. Now there will be an option for rear SFX too so +22.5mm extra clearance over the CPU (for a total of about 70mm IIRC) maybe that's enough.
The more conventional approach would be front mount SFX & rad on the bottom.
In theory you should have 70mm in cpu cooler clearance with sfx rear psu, however as silverstonetek bracket is not maximising offset, so i got finally only something like 62-63mm...my apogee drive (61.5mm without fittings) is either tight fit or blocked with fittings.
That’s why i asked @KSliger and @PlayfulPhoenix to develop a rear sfx bracket that will provide as close as possible of this 70mm theorical cpu cooler clearance...
So currently the swinging mount can't be removed? I just sort of assumed from the look of the hinge that it could be lifted and removed. Would be nice to have a simple method to remove it non-permanently.
Would love some more details about the rustic steampunk set - ever since I saw the Chimera I wanted to do a electroplated & etched copper panel set with some verdigris for a themed build, and sounds like steampunk might be coppery? I can only hope ahahah...
If not I definitely see myself custom fabricating some copper plate panels in future. Might be a tad heavy though lol.
Actually, why hinge? vs something like a regular panel/frame that unmounts in one piece.
(Not sure why didn't I think to ask a few months back ._. )
(Not sure why didn't I think to ask a few months back ._. )
If anything is mounted to the side bracket (e.g. radiator) it makes maintenance a LOT easier to have the bracket remain attached while hinging out of the way. When I had a rad & HDD cage attached to the M1's bracket, it meant that if I wanted to access the motherboard I needed to either turn the case on it's side and lean the bracket & rad off of the side to avoid straining the tubing too much (as well as disconnecting the drives in the cage), or demount the cooler from the CPU. With the hinge, it can just be swung out of the way without any parts being strained.
The Cerberus hinge appears to be a non-fixed drop-in hinge, so once you remove the screw from the right side to allow it to swing you can just life the hinge off of its mounting points and remove it anyway.
Ahh got it. Didn't do watercooled builds before, so I haven't considered that ease of maintenance part
I've been wondering about using the side bracket to brace a CPU air cooler. They can be quite some mass and hanging a good distance from the mobo which I guess could put a lot of strain on the mounting if roughly handled in transport.
Is it worth doing?
Is it worth doing?
Yeah that's the cooler I'm most likely to use. Not as heavy as the monster towers which don't fit anyway but still fairly hefty
yeah earlier in this thread (a few months back though) I toyed with the thought of an internal brace to keep the finstack in place. An iteration was some kind of motherboard shield that's heightened to the underside of the bottom fan, so the stack is between the hinge panel and the motherboard brace.
to model it out is probably the easier part, considering that to pay a service to bend it out would be...
(and I don't have the luxury to buy and house a sheet metal brake and actual sheets of metal ,_,)
Kinda dropped that idea for now, because I need the physical thing to actually do a sanity check, LOL
(EDIT: also another sanity check about the kind of force required to actually bend the C14s to even consider reinforcing it in the first place)
to model it out is probably the easier part, considering that to pay a service to bend it out would be...
(and I don't have the luxury to buy and house a sheet metal brake and actual sheets of metal ,_,)
Kinda dropped that idea for now, because I need the physical thing to actually do a sanity check, LOL
(EDIT: also another sanity check about the kind of force required to actually bend the C14s to even consider reinforcing it in the first place)
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Bracing from below, hmm also seems like a good approach.
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is a problem that needs addressing. It seems plausible it might be, but I've no idea how often people have actual damage in this way. I don't worry about me carrying the thing around but even well padded inside a pelican case or similar makes me cringe at the thought of baggage handlers.
And the side brace seems like a good target of opportunity.
Thing is, I'm not even sure this is a problem that needs addressing. It seems plausible it might be, but I've no idea how often people have actual damage in this way. I don't worry about me carrying the thing around but even well padded inside a pelican case or similar makes me cringe at the thought of baggage handlers.
And the side brace seems like a good target of opportunity.
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Sliger was able to negotiate a lower price on the parts for the clip and pin system. Overall it meant that keeping six cost-wise was a wash, so we're keeping the current design.
Nice to see this finally happening, it's a great little case. Will be looking forward to seeing new builds in it.
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